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Hearing "Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
MR. KIT BREWER "Missouri because I think that the differences state to state need to make this a best practice conversation, not a conversation about elimination. In Missouri, we have 86 workshops, extended employment centers that employ about 5,000 individuals, and I'll give you just a few facts about Project CU. This last month, the average wage at Project CU was over $10 an hour. The wage up until this time in the year to date is about $8.30. Now, that's not standard. That is not required. But what it does impress upon everyone here, that the use of subminimum wage is an inaccurate statement. The special..."
Hearing Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Secretary of Labor.
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript · 7 transcript matches
MURRAY, PATTY "about native-born workers. It is so apparent this department is posting this kind of garbage as a wink and nod to extremists and to get a rise out of everyone else who is paying attention, but you need to hear it from somebody. This kind of language and imagery is a disgrace. Mr. Sonderling, Frances Perkins, the woman who we can thank for the minimum wage, for the 40-hour work week, for social security, she built this department to stop employers with records like yours. So I'll close with this, the four million workers whose overtime you shut the door on didn't get a vote on that policy, but..."
CRS Report
Minimum Wages and the Raise the Wage Act (H.R. 582)
Resources · Aug 5, 2019
Federal Minimum Wage Law Since 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA, 29 U.S.C. §206) has required that certain workers be paid a minimum wage. Since then, Congress has raised the minimum wage...
CRS Report
The Federal Minimum Wage: Indexation
Reports · Oct 26, 2016
In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established a federal minimum wage of $0.25 per hour. The minimum wage provisions of the FLSA have been amended numerous times since then, typically for...
CRS Report
The Federal Minimum Wage: In Brief
Reports · Feb 4, 2021
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, is the federal law that establishes the minimum hourly wage that must be paid to all covered workers. The minimum wage provisions of the FLSA...
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Wage Inequality and the Stagnation of Earnings of Low-Wage Workers: Contributing Factors and Policy Options
Reports · Feb 5, 2020
Over the 1979-2018 period, real wages at the 10th percentile of the hourly wage distribution grew by 1.6%, whereas wages at the 50th percentile grew by 6.1% and wages at the 90th percentile grew by...
CRS Report
State Minimum Wages: An Overview
Reports · Oct 3, 2024
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), enacted in 1938, is the federal law that establishes the general minimum wage that must be paid to all covered, nonexempt workers employed in a state or territory...
CRS Report
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): An Overview
Reports · Mar 8, 2023
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides workers with minimum wage, overtime pay, and child labor protections. The FLSA covers most, but not all, private and public sector employees. In addition,...
CRS Report
Special Minimum Wages for Workers with Disabilities: Frequently Asked Questions
Reports · Dec 16, 2016
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as amended, sets the minimum wage for covered workers at $7.25 per hour. Section 14(c) of the FLSA permits certified employers to pay a worker with a disability...
CRS Report
Social Security Special Minimum Benefit: Policy Options
Reports · Nov 2, 2020
Social Security’s minimum benefit provision, also known as the special minimum primary insurance amount (PIA), is an alternative benefit formula that increases benefits paid to workers who had low...
Testimony SPEAKER_04
Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Ri...
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026
"There are other mechanisms as well. We can instill a minimum wage. We see the evidence that, you know, the rhetoric is that a minimum wage will lead to job loss. Well, we've had countless studies that have shown that there's plenty of slack by which we can raise the"
CRS Report
Social Security: Minimum Benefits
Reports · Jun 15, 2021
Social Security’s special minimum benefit provision, also known as the Special Minimum Primary Insurance Amount (PIA), is an alternative benefit formula that increases benefits paid to workers who...
Hearing "On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Providers"
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jun 9, 2026 · Transcript · 4 transcript matches
DR. KATIE WELLS "Since 2022, lawmakers in 17 states have introduced bills that do just this. An Ohio bill seeks to exempt gig platforms from minimum wage requirements. A Georgia bill seeks to exempt platforms from adhering to state unemployment"
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New Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) Methodology for Temporary Employment of H-2A Nonimmigrants in the United States
InFocus · Nov 25, 2025
Introduction The H-2A visa program allows for the temporary admission of foreign workers to the United States to perform agricultural labor or services of a seasonal or temporary nature. (See CRS...
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Exemption for Executive, Administrative, and Professional (EAP) Employees: 2023 Proposed Rule
Resources · Nov 13, 2023
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes a federal minimum wage for most private and public sector employees and generally requires overtime compensation at a rate of one and one-half times an...
CRS Report
Workforce and Labor Policy: Resources for Congressional Offices
Reports · May 30, 2023
This report serves as a starting point for congressional staff assigned to cover issues related to federal workforce and labor programs and policies. The report outlines federal workforce and labor...
Hearing "Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025 · Transcript · 3 transcript matches
RYAN TALLEY "investment in mechanization and automization that's critical for us. Mr. Talley. Quite honestly, the meteoric rise in the wages in the AWER, it's not sustainable. You're seeing, I think, for the first time last year, the numbers in H-2A usage have kind of gone flat and maybe even gone down due to the sheer fact that this year it's at $19.97. California's minimum wage is at $16.50. In effect, $19.97 is now our minimum wage in our family farm. And when you compete against just not only other States that have $2 to $3 less an hour wages, but also you're In effect, $19.97 is now our minimum wage..."
CRS Report
Guides and Outfitters on Federal Lands: Issues for Congress
Reports · Jun 14, 2022
Guides and outfitters play a significant role in facilitating recreational use of the country’s public lands, including those owned by the federal government. These service providers also can be of...
CRS Report
The U.S. Income Distribution: Trends and Issues
Reports · Jan 13, 2021
Income inequality—that is, the extent to which individuals’ or households’ incomes differ—has increased in the United States since the 1970s. Rising income inequality over this time period is driven...
CRS Report
Congressional Court Watcher: Circuit Splits from November 2024
Posts · Dec 9, 2024
The U.S. Courts of Appeals for the thirteen “circuits” issue thousands of precedential decisions each year. Because relatively few of these decisions are ultimately reviewed by the Supreme Court, the...
Hearing Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor, James Macy, of...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SANDERS, BERNARD "including the acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. The Wage and Hour Division proposed a rule to strip home care workers of their right to minimum wage and overtime. Do you really believe that home care workers should be paid less than $7.25 an hour and not get paid time and a half for overtime? Thank you, Senator, for your question. Okay. Mr. Macy, do you believe it was illegal for President Trump to"
Hearing “Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Information”
house Workforce Protections Subcommittee · Jul 22, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
TAKANO, MARK "on the many urgent issues that working people in my district and across the district care about. There's not one single hearing focused on raising the minimum wage. Not one single hearing focused on combating wage theft. Not one hearing focused on strengthening our child labor"
Hearing “Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee · Jun 24, 2026 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
ADAMS, ALMA S. "And so if we want to boost our economy and truly support workers, then we must take care of the workers already in those roles by raising the minimum wage and empowering workers to collectively bargain for higher pay, safer workplaces and better benefits. So again, I thank you all for your testimony today, Mr. Chairman. I yield"
Hearing Hearings to examine the rising cost of health care, focusing on considering meaningful solutions for all Americans.
senate Finance Committee · Nov 19, 2025 · Transcript · 2 transcript matches
SPEAKER_22 "Let's go through an example. In Georgia, a woman in Macon with a full-time minimum wage job at a local barbecue restaurant and earning roughly $20,000 a year, that's the reality for many"
Testimony MR. KIT BREWER
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"Missouri because I think that the differences state to state need to make this a best practice conversation, not a conversation about elimination. In Missouri, we have 86 workshops, extended employment centers that employ about 5,000 individuals, and I'll give you just a few facts about Project CU. This last month, the average wage at Project CU was over $10 an hour. The wage up until this time in the year to date is about $8.30. Now, that's not standard. That is not required. But what it does..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"about native-born workers. It is so apparent this department is posting this kind of garbage as a wink and nod to extremists and to get a rise out of everyone else who is paying attention, but you need to hear it from somebody. This kind of language and imagery is a disgrace. Mr. Sonderling, Frances Perkins, the woman who we can thank for the minimum wage, for the 40-hour work week, for social security, she built this department to stop employers with records like yours. So I'll close with..."
Testimony SANDERS, BERNARD
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"including the acting administrator of the Wage and Hour Division. The Wage and Hour Division proposed a rule to strip home care workers of their right to minimum wage and overtime. Do you really believe that home care workers should be paid less than $7.25 an hour and not get paid time and a half for overtime? Thank you, Senator, for your question. Okay. Mr. Macy, do you believe it was illegal for President Trump to"
Testimony RYAN TALLEY
"Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country"
house Agriculture Committee · Feb 11, 2025
"investment in mechanization and automization that's critical for us. Mr. Talley. Quite honestly, the meteoric rise in the wages in the AWER, it's not sustainable. You're seeing, I think, for the first time last year, the numbers in H-2A usage have kind of gone flat and maybe even gone down due to the sheer fact that this year it's at $19.97. California's minimum wage is at $16.50. In effect, $19.97 is now our minimum wage in our family farm. And when you compete against just not only other..."
Testimony DR. LAURA OWENS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"Thank you, Representative Grothman and Representative Owens for the opportunity to speak with you today. I'm Laura Owens. I'm a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and also the president of Transcend, a community-based organization that provides employment services for people with disabilities and community participation. Subminimum wage is not just a disability policy issue, it's an economic issue and a choice issue. Section 14C of the Fair Labor Standards Act was enacted in..."
Testimony DR. LAURA OWENS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"needs. Analyzing 14C certificate data show that nearly half the workers are paid under these certificates less than $3.50 an hour. And that's not a functioning labor market. It's a wage exemption based solely on disability. And it produces predictable outcomes, poverty, segregation, and lost economic potential. Minimum wage is a floor, not a measure of an individual's output. In every other part of the labor market, differences in productivity are addressed through job design, technology,..."
Testimony MR. KIT BREWER
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"When Missouri passed its resolution in 2017, it was in full support of 14C as a part of an employment continuum. Since then, we have passed two more bipartisan bills that arranged how the program was funded, and in fact, passed a bill that would allow the State Department of Education to supply a special minimum wage certificate should 14C go away at a federal level. Now, we hope not to utilize that because we're in this for the much broader community. I will say that the reason behind all of..."
Testimony OWENS, BURGESS
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"and no longer do, and the state doesn't seem to be concerned about that. Mr. Bureau, 16 states have eliminated access to 14C certificates or otherwise required employees to pay a full minimum wage. While this might sound reasonable to some, can you describe the potential unintended consequences by eliminating these 14C jobs? I kind of dealt with it before, but if you wouldn't mind expanding on that a little bit, I'd appreciate it. Okay. I have a question, Barbara, for you, and then I'd like to..."
Testimony GROTHMAN, GLENN
"Work, Dignity, and Choice in Disability Employment"
house Education and Workforce Committee · Feb 13, 2026
"60th anniversary of all the people all the people who over that 60 years this has been so much of their life, and it's a good thing they didn't talk about all this segregation and horrible having sub-minimum wage 60 years ago. Or Green Valley never would have got off the ground. You think all the people who had so much enjoyment and so much of their life built in a place like"
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"scandal-plagued work environment. She was pushed out. But let's be clear. You are not a bystander to this administration's anti-worker policies and agenda. You were confirmed as deputy secretary in March of last year. You've run it as acting secretary since April. I just talked about the harm this Republican majority has done to our economy, but you have built your own anti-worker record at DOL. You rescinded the overtime rule in May, slamming the door on time-and-a-half pay for more than four..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"The Labor Department founding mission is, quote, to promote the welfare of wage earners. You've run this department for three months, and in that time, you formalized taking overtime away from 4 million people, moved to cut care workers minimum wage, teed up longer hours for 14-year-olds, and defended a budget that leaves workers in the dust. So let me give you a very specific question. On July 2nd of last year, DOL proposed a new rule about wages and overtime pay for home care workers. If this..."
Testimony MURRAY, PATTY
Hearings to examine the nomination of Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"overtime protections? I'm out of time, and I'm going to correct the record here because if this draft rule is finalized, which is what my question was to you, it is 3.7 million workers, home care workers who will be stripped of minimum wage and overtime protections. That's how many home care workers the department is ripping away minimum wage and overtime protections from, and Mr. Chairman, to me, that is anti-worker. That's how many home care workers the department is ripping away minimum wage..."
Testimony SANDERS, BERNARD
Hearings to examine the nominations of Brett Matsumoto, of Maryland, t...
senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · Jun 10, 2026
"Macy's nomination. And let me very briefly tell you why. As I understand it, Mr. Macy has spent most of his career representing the interests of management, not ordinary workers. Further, as a senior official at the Department of Labor, Mr. Macy has worked on policies that undermine working families. For example, at the Department of Labor, he worked on a proposed rule that would deny over a million home care workers the right to the federal minimum wage and overtime pay. Mr. Chairman, we need..."
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"on the many urgent issues that working people in my district and across the district care about. There's not one single hearing focused on raising the minimum wage. Not one single hearing focused on combating wage theft. Not one hearing focused on strengthening our child labor"
Testimony TAKANO, MARK
“Broken Trust: How the Biden-Harris DOL Leaked Confidential Informatio...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jul 22, 2026
"That's certainly not a record that I'd want to talk about either. I hope that we can return from the August district work period with a renewed focus and address urgent issues such as raising the minimum wage, improving workers' rights, and strengthening child labor"
Testimony SPEAKER_13
The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026
"Well, it has a material budget impact, and so there's no way to know. You all had a minimum wage increase in a reconciliation bill. That was something you anticipated would be compliant. It was scrubbed out as non-compliant. We had some things scrubbed out of the first one that did not comply with the Byrd"
Testimony ADAMS, ALMA S.
“Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"And so if we want to boost our economy and truly support workers, then we must take care of the workers already in those roles by raising the minimum wage and empowering workers to collectively bargain for higher pay, safer workplaces and better benefits. So again, I thank you all for your testimony today, Mr. Chairman. I yield"
Testimony DR. KATIE WELLS
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Since 2022, lawmakers in 17 states have introduced bills that do just this. An Ohio bill seeks to exempt gig platforms from minimum wage requirements. A Georgia bill seeks to exempt platforms from adhering to state unemployment"
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Wolfson, you know that if a worker is designated as a independent contractor, the employer is no longer responsible for minimum wage, overtime, unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, and the independent contractor is not allowed to organize and form a union. Do you know how much money the employer saves in labor costs by designating someone as an independent contractor as opposed to an"
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"So some person can waive his right to be an employee by signing on with the employer. I agree to be an independent contractor and not eligible for minimum wage, overtime, unemployment compensation, and everything else. I can just agree to"
Testimony SCOTT, ROBERT C. "BOBBY"
"On Call for America: Strengthening Access Through Locum Tenens Provid...
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 9, 2026
"What would happen if a hospital just spun off its human resources department as a separate business and the separate business placed independent contractors at the hospital? Would that immunize the hospital from having to pay minimum wage over time, be subject to unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, and none of those persons could join a union? Dr. Palagashvili, you indicated that you had some research that you referred to. You referred to that research in prior"
Testimony UNKNOWN
Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and ...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026
"The evidence we do have about the effectiveness of work requirements and time limits does not support the extremely stringent limits and requirements that this rule would allow. Seventy-four million people work in occupations that pay less than the minimum wage required to afford a decent one or two-bedroom apartment at market rates. When working people are pushed out of their homes and after they hit an arbitrary time limit and still cannot afford to rent in the private market, where will they..."
Testimony OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY
"Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of...
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026
"More than 4.4 million of those receive tax credits worth an average of $1,500. It's also worth mentioning that gig and self-employed workers, including the more than 527,000 of those in Maryland, those in Maryland, are often paid sub-minimum wages while taking on the primary risks and costs of doing business under the name of their highly profitable parent companies. At the same time, we need to consider the impact the gig economy has on small"
Testimony CORREA, J. LUIS
“Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the...
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026
"Ms. McNeil, you were right about attrition rates at TSA. I remember a few weeks, actually a few years ago, working on this issue of attrition. It was up to 20% for TSA workers. What changed that? Better pay, better benefits, because we wanted what we wanted to do was professionalize TSA workers from part-time minimum wage workers to make them what they're supposed to be, which is frontline workers that are watching to make sure nothing gets on a flight that could hurt Americans. Can I ask you..."
Testimony HORSFORD, STEVEN
Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive O...
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026
"That is the current sub minimum wage as sad as it is What I'm hearing is that the promise of no tax on tips, and frankly, the other so-called working family tax cuts that are in the so-called one big betrayal of a bill, does not fully match or respond to the realities that workers and their families are"
Testimony SPEAKER_00
“Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Oversight and Government Reform Committee · Jan 22, 2026
"They're kind of stuck there and it puts them in a terrible situation. So, you know, regarding Section 8 vouchers and funding for them, right now, if you live in New York City, you can't even get on the wait list. The wait list itself for Section 8 is closed. Time limits are based under the assumption that the folks who are working and most folks who can work are working. It's just they're working minimum wage jobs that don't pay them enough, do not have regular hours. Many of these folks also..."
Testimony GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E.
Hearings to examine aging and the impact of community during the holid...
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Dec 3, 2025
"economic opportunity in the community. Thank you. Thank you. For Mr. Resendez, today we have highlighted the services and supports that older adults and people with disabilities need to live independently. These services and supports are often provided by direct care workers who assist older adults and people with disabilities with activities of daily living such as dressing and bathing in home settings. Unfortunately these workers may face systemic challenges and turnover in this workforce..."
Testimony SPEAKER_22
Hearings to examine the rising cost of health care, focusing on consid...
senate Finance Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"Let's go through an example. In Georgia, a woman in Macon with a full-time minimum wage job at a local barbecue restaurant and earning roughly $20,000 a year, that's the reality for many"
Testimony SPEAKER_22
Hearings to examine the rising cost of health care, focusing on consid...
senate Finance Committee · Nov 19, 2025
"Let's compare this to someone in a state that has expanded Medicaid. Let's take the same woman making minimum wage. Because they've expanded"
Hearing Priced Out of the American Dream: Understanding the Policies Behind Rising Costs of Housing and Borrowing
house Financial Services Committee · Feb 10, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_04 "There are other mechanisms as well. We can instill a minimum wage. We see the evidence that, you know, the rhetoric is that a minimum wage will lead to job loss. Well, we've had countless studies that have shown that there's plenty of slack by which we can raise the"
Hearing The Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
house Budget Committee · Jul 16, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_13 "Well, it has a material budget impact, and so there's no way to know. You all had a minimum wage increase in a reconciliation bill. That was something you anticipated would be compliant. It was scrubbed out as non-compliant. We had some things scrubbed out of the first one that did not comply with the Byrd"
Hearing Fiscal Year 2027 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Bill and the Fiscal Year 2027 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and...
house Appropriations Committee · Jun 3, 2026 · Transcript
UNKNOWN "The evidence we do have about the effectiveness of work requirements and time limits does not support the extremely stringent limits and requirements that this rule would allow. Seventy-four million people work in occupations that pay less than the minimum wage required to afford a decent one or two-bedroom apartment at market rates. When working people are pushed out of their homes and after they hit an arbitrary time limit and still cannot afford to rent in the private market, where will they"
Hearing "Independent Work, Real Opportunity: The Gig Economy and the Future of Entrepreneurship."
house Small Business Committee · Apr 21, 2026 · Transcript
OLSZEWSKI, JOHNNY "More than 4.4 million of those receive tax credits worth an average of $1,500. It's also worth mentioning that gig and self-employed workers, including the more than 527,000 of those in Maryland, those in Maryland, are often paid sub-minimum wages while taking on the primary risks and costs of doing business under the name of their highly profitable parent companies. At the same time, we need to consider the impact the gig economy has on small"
Hearing “Funding Lapse and Security Gaps: Assessing the Harmful Impacts of the DHS Shutdown on Americans”
house Homeland Security Committee · Mar 25, 2026 · Transcript
CORREA, J. LUIS "Ms. McNeil, you were right about attrition rates at TSA. I remember a few weeks, actually a few years ago, working on this issue of attrition. It was up to 20% for TSA workers. What changed that? Better pay, better benefits, because we wanted what we wanted to do was professionalize TSA workers from part-time minimum wage workers to make them what they're supposed to be, which is frontline workers that are watching to make sure nothing gets on a flight that could hurt Americans. Can I ask you another question, Ms. McNeil? What's the status of the collective bargaining rights of TSA workers..."
Hearing Full Committee Hearing with Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer, Frank J. Bisignano
house Ways and Means Committee · Mar 4, 2026 · Transcript
HORSFORD, STEVEN "That is the current sub minimum wage as sad as it is What I'm hearing is that the promise of no tax on tips, and frankly, the other so-called working family tax cuts that are in the so-called one big betrayal of a bill, does not fully match or respond to the realities that workers and their families are"
Hearing “Housing Affordability: Saving the American Dream”
house Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee · Jan 22, 2026 · Transcript
SPEAKER_00 "They're kind of stuck there and it puts them in a terrible situation. So, you know, regarding Section 8 vouchers and funding for them, right now, if you live in New York City, you can't even get on the wait list. The wait list itself for Section 8 is closed. Time limits are based under the assumption that the folks who are working and most folks who can work are working. It's just they're working minimum wage jobs that don't pay them enough, do not have regular hours. Many of these folks also have"
Hearing Hearings to examine aging and the impact of community during the holidays.
senate Aging (Special) Committee · Dec 3, 2025 · Transcript
GILLIBRAND, KIRSTEN E. "economic opportunity in the community. Thank you. Thank you. For Mr. Resendez, today we have highlighted the services and supports that older adults and people with disabilities need to live independently. These services and supports are often provided by direct care workers who assist older adults and people with disabilities with activities of daily living such as dressing and bathing in home settings. Unfortunately these workers may face systemic challenges and turnover in this workforce approaching 80% in 2020, they already face this in 2023. More recently the Department of Labor has..."
Testimony SPEAKER_08
“Workforce Rewired: Modern Apprenticeships for a Modern Economy”
house Education and Workforce Committee · Jun 24, 2026
"but they are not established in the regulations or in the law. So, the key measures of wages, entered employment, retention, and credential attainment at our minimum are some of the measures Congress should look"